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The UK is set to exit the EU on October 31 and with Boris Johnson in the driving seat, there is real fear there will be no deal with some experts warning of possible loss of 40,000 jobs in Northern Ireland.

In the event of ‘no deal’, customs controls will have to be placed along one of the most complex border crossings in Europe.

Yet comments making light of the situation continue.

Quite a pickle for the owners of this farm

Brexit Party London MEP Ben Habib came under fire for a video from the Irish border saying there “could never be a hard border here” and dubbing “the whole thing a red herring”.

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Mark added: “One thing I find interesting about that kind of ‘border denial’ is back in 2016, Brexiteers campaigned on ‘take back control of our borders’ and now they’ve flipped to ‘border will never be controlled’. Quite the turnaround.”

A leaked confidential Whitehall document shared by Sky outlines how Republic and NI cross border agri-trade (around 65% of trade) will virtually stop one day one of Brexit, while small businesses in Northern Ireland will “face distress and law and order challenges” in the first month.

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Work by Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA) for Department of the Economy shows that 94% of exports from Northern Ireland to the Republic are made by the small and medium sized businesses which dominate our economy.

Their estimates suggest there were 758,000 cross border export deliveries to IE in 2016, worth around £3.42bn to the local economy in 2016 and a further 410,000 imports worth a further £2 billion - which the backstop was designed to protect.

The PSNI has also warned that any infrastructure on the border could lead to trouble, while 1,000 police officers in England, Scotland and Wales are being trained for deployment to Northern Ireland in the case of no-deal disorder.

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